The Real Reason You Rehearse Arguments In The Shower That You'll Never Actually Have
You've delivered the perfect comeback to your steamed-up tiles a hundred times. Here's what your brain is really up to.
Water's running, and suddenly you're mid-monologue, absolutely destroying someone in a confrontation that will never, ever happen. You even do the eyebrow thing. Everyone does this.
The shower is one of the few places left with zero inputs. No screen, no notifications, no one talking. So your brain finally has room to run the simulations it's been queuing up all day.
Rehearsing conflict is your mind trying to feel prepared and in control over situations where you felt neither. It's basically a dress rehearsal for closure you never got in real life.
It's usually harmless, even useful, but if the same imaginary fight keeps looping, that's often a sign there's a real conversation you've been avoiding. The tiles can't give you the resolution a person can.
